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METROPOLIS STRATEGIES NFP

EIN 36-4278088 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$2,292,361
Expenses 2024
$2,499,400

Program services were 71.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T20
Classification
1200
Street
33 S STATE STREET 750

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Metropolis Strategies NFP is to advance policies and practices that reduce violence, decrease prison recidivism, and makes the justice system more equitable.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of Metropolis Strategies NFP is to advance policies and practices that reduce violence, decrease prison recidivism, and makes the justice system more equitable. Metropolis Strategies NFP's activities are in support of the mission of The Chicago Community Trust.

  • The Illinois Justice Project released a report that documents significant progress towards the implementation of policies that promote police accountability and transparency throughout Illinois. We supported the implementation of affordable housing programs for residents throughout Illinois and distributed $80,000 in microgrants to reentry organizations.

    Expenses $1,785,253 · Grants $80,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Andrea Saenz

    Director, Chair

    Total calculated
    $685,048
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $623,862
    Other
    $61,186
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $594,280 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $28,340 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,242 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $52,325 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $8,861 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $685,048 related

  • Frank Beal

    Director, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jack Greenberg

    Director, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Esther Franco-Payne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lanetta Haynes Turner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ahmadou Drame

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $182,625
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $154,743
    Other
    $27,882
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $154,520 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $223 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,221 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $14,661 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $182,625 related

  • Anne Sweeney

    Communications Director

    Total calculated
    $136,865
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $116,274
    Other
    $20,591
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,292,361
    Expenses
    $2,499,400
    Contributions
    $2,225,500
    Grants paid
    $80,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,379,947
    Expenses
    $1,737,808
    Contributions
    $2,316,377
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,319,924
    Expenses
    $1,524,787
    Contributions
    $2,289,306
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,319,924
    Expenses
    $1,524,787
    Contributions
    $2,289,306
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $863,030
    Expenses
    $1,700,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,205,986

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,072,827
    Expenses
    $1,012,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,885,483

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,333,176
    Expenses
    $895,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,105,332

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $684,645
    Expenses
    $649,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $489,810

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,595
    Expenses
    $667,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $335,572

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • Friends of the Education Justice Project

    $10,000

    2024 Funding innovative emergency grants for returning residents as they face short-term needs, ranging from utility bills to clothes for job interviews

  • I Care Too

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a returning-resident-led organization's innovation as they provide support to elderly returning residents with healthcare appointments, travel, and other wraparound supports

  • Life Impacters Foundation

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a returning-resident-led organization's innovation as they provide housing and wraparound supports for women leaving incarceration

  • Peoples Liberty Project

    $10,000

    2024 Funding innovative training for returning residents and reentry partners to be able to lead peace circles and provide trauma-informed healing support

  • The Little Resource Center

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a reentry-focused organization's innovation as they support fathers, often formerly incarcerated, so they can be capable supports for their pregnant partners

  • Walls Turned Sideways

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a returning-resident-founded organization's innovative programming including art therapy and healing circles

  • Beyond the Walls

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a returning-resident-led organization's innovative trauma-informed program for women leaving prison, aiming to build coping strategies and create personalized healing plans

  • Challenge II Change

    $10,000

    2024 Funding a returning-resident-led organization as they build an innovative co-governance model in their reentry housing units

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.